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ADJUSTABLE OONNEGTION FOR WOVEN WIRE BED-FRAMES. No. 255,405. PatentedMar. 28,1882.

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CHARLES L. AMES AND ABEL H. FROST, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE CONNECTION FOR WOVEN-WIRE BED-F RAME S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,405. dated March28, 1882,

Application filed January 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES L. AMES and ABEL H. FROST, of Chicago, inthe countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in AdjustableConnectionsforWoven-WireBed-Frames; andwe do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of IBfGIQHCGlllflIkEd thereon, which form a part ofthis specification. v

This invention relates to devices for adjustably fastening the end barsto the side rails of a woven-wire bed-bottom in which the fabric issupported under tension from the end bars. Its object is to provide aconstruction in adjustable connections for such bed-frames which shallbe more compact,.strong, reliable, and easy of adjustment than thoseheretofore in use and to this end it consists in the features ofconstruction hereinafter described and claimed.

' In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section of a woven-wire bed-bottomtransverse to the end rail and near one side rail, showing our improvedconnecting device with the tensionscrew arranged outside the end bar.Fig. 2 is the same view,'showing the tension-screw arranged at the inneredge of the end bar. Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinal sectionof the fastening-plates, detached and enlarged, through 3 3. of Fig. 4.Fig. 4 is a transverse section of said plates through 4 4. of Fig. 3.

A is the side rail, and B is the end bar, of the bed-frame.

C and D are the two plates of our improved fastening. The plate C isrelatively thick, and is longitudinally recessed at 0, giving sideflanges, 0 as shown in Fig. 4, to receive nearly the entire thickness ofthe sectionally dovetailshaped smaller plate D. At one end the plate Cis provided with a strong lug, 0, cast continuous with the flanges 0 aswell as with the intervening part of the plate, so as to form a head,which closes one end of the recess a. This lug is apertured at c andtapped to admit the square-headed screw C as near as practi-- cable tothe bottom of the recess 0, so that the end of the'screw C bears againstthe end of the plate D when lying in said recess, as shown in Fig. 8.

As an essential feature of our invention each of the plates C and D,being of the form indicated, is provided with bolt-holes a or 01directly through the body thereof, which holes are countersunk in themeeting faces of the plates, as shown. By this location of the bolts theutmost strength is secured in the fa-stening without impairing thestrength ofthe plates, and the compactness of the plates is preserved,by which the desirable proximity of the frame-rails, when connectedthereby, is obtained.

Either plate may be secured to either part of the bed-frame. Thus inFig. 1 the heavier plate C is secured to the end bar, B, and the plate Dto the side rail, A. In Fig. 2 the plates are reversed in relation tothe frame parts, with the effect of bringing the screw C inside the endbar and over the side rail, A.

By arranging the screw 0 low down, soas to work in the dovetailed recess0 of the plate C, said screw may directly bear upon the end of the plateD, instead of upon the wood of the rail to which the latter is secured,and thus work more easily and effectively. Moreover, being thusarranged, the head of the screw C *is to the utmost practicable degreeout of the as stated, materially strengthens the plate 0 In testimonythat we claim the foregoing as against a liability to break under thegreat ourjoint invention we affix our signatures in strain of thefabricwhich falls upon said flan ges. presence of two Witnesses.

We claim as our invention l 5 As an adjustable fastening for bed-framesgdgg having the fabric stretched from end to end,

the dovetailed plates 0 and D, having eounter- Witnesses to signature ofO. L. Ames: sunk bolt-holes in their meeting faces, and the M. E.DAYTON, recessed plate 0, having the end lug, G, and W. O. ADAMS.

to screw 0 threaded through said lug, and ar- Witnesses to signature ofA. H. Frost:

ranged to bear against the end of the plate D, D. W. MARSHALL,

substantially as described. A. P. GRANGER.

